Worship is a dominant theme in the book of Daniel and lies at its very center. History and apocalyptics, stories and prophecy are intimately interlinked; therefore, what happened in the courts of Babylon and Medo-Persia locally (chaps. 1, 3–6) is magnified on the universal scale in prophecies (chaps. 2, 7–12) in a type and antitype relationship. The God of Daniel is always on the side of the oppressed until the end of time.
